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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






2. The person who 'tells' the story.






3. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






4. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






5. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






6. The selection of words in a literary work.






7. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






8. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






9. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






10. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






11. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






12. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






13. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






14. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






15. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






16. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






17. The dictionary meaning of a word.






18. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






19. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






20. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






21. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






22. A strong pause within a line.






23. A figure of speech in which two things are compared using 'like' or 'as'.






24. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






25. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






26. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






27. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






28. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






29. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






30. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






31. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






32. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






33. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.






34. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






35. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






36. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






37. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






38. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






39. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






40. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






41. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






42. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






43. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






44. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






45. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






46. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






47. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






48. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






49. What a story or play is about.






50. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.







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